[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3180 Introduced in House (IH)]










104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3180

        To increase penalties for sex offenses against children.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 28, 1996

  Mr. Frost introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
        To increase penalties for sex offenses against children.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Amber Hagerman Child Protection Act 
of 1996''.

SEC. 2. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR FEDERAL SEX OFFENSES AGAINST CHILDREN.

    (a) Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor.--Section 2241(c) of title 
18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``whoever in interstate or foreign 
        commerce or'' before ``in the special'';
            (2) by inserting ``crosses a State line with intent to 
        engage in a sexual act with a person who has not attained the 
        age of 12 years, or'' after ``Whoever'';
            (3) by inserting ``, and may be sentenced to death if the 
        defendant kills the victim'' before the period at the end; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following: ``If the defendant 
        has previously been convicted of another Federal offense under 
        this subsection or under section 2243(a), or of a State offense 
        that would have been an offense under either such provision had 
        the offense occurred in a Federal prison, unless the death 
        penalty is imposed, the defendant shall be sentenced to life in 
        prison.''.
    (b) Sexual Abuse of a Minor.--Section 2243(a) of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``whoever in interstate or foreign 
        commerce or'' before ``in the special'';
            (2) by inserting ``crosses a State line with intent to 
        engage in a sexual act with a person who, or'' after 
        ``Whoever'';
            (3) by inserting ``, and may be sentenced to death if the 
        defendant kills the victim'' before the period at the end; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following: ``If the defendant 
        has previously been convicted of another Federal offense under 
        this subsection or under section 2241(c), or of a State offense 
        that would have been an offense under either such provision had 
        the offense occurred in a Federal prison, unless the death 
        penalty is imposed, the defendant shall be sentenced to life in 
        prison.''.

SEC. 3. CONDITION FOR BYRNE GRANTS.

    Section 170101(f) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 
Act of 1994 is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); 
        and
            (2) inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:
                    ``(B) In order not to reduce the funds available 
                under part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
                and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by 10 percent, a State 
                shall, on the first day of each fiscal year beginning 2 
                years after the date of the enactment of the ____ Act, 
                have in effect throughout the State in such fiscal year 
                a law which requires a court to sentence a defendant in 
                a State prosecution who is convicted of an offense that 
                would have been an offense if such offense occurred in 
                a Federal prison under section 2241(c) or 2243(a) of 
                title 18, United States Code, and who has previously 
                been convicted for such an offense to life in prison 
                without the possibility of parole.''.

SEC. 4. RELEASE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION.

    Section 170101 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 
of 1994 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``conviction data and 
        fingerprints'' and inserting ``information'';
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (2);
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) such information shall be transmitted to the Federal 
        Bureau of Investigation; and'';
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
                (4); and
                    (D) in paragraph (4) (as redesignated), by striking 
                ``may release'' and inserting ``shall release''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Separate Data Base.--The Federal Bureau of Investigation 
shall maintain a separate data base for information submitted to the 
Bureau under this section and make that data base accessible to 
appropriate State law enforcement officials. The Bureau shall inform 
appropriate local law enforcement officials on each occasion that a 
person registered under this section changes registration to that 
locality.''.
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